After Effects Export to Cinema 4D Without Baked Keyframes!

Question

Working on a project in Cinema 4D and a friend of mine discussed once that she uses the time remap feature in After Effects, but then later exports the time remap to Cinema 4D to control the time of the scene. Her graph looks like this- unbaked and splines are identical to AE.

Mine looks like this- baked and inaccurate to the time of AE.

"Pancrop is done in AE, along with time remap using a hardware render. The resulting data are saved on the position property of a 3D solid - saving the 2D pancrop data on x and y of the solid, and the time remap data on the z-axis of the solid. Then export the solid to C4D and use the data." Is there a feature/script that allows me to export the time keyframes to Cinema 4D without baking them?

Mylenium · Answer

What's Pancrop? Sounds like a specific script/ plug-in/ expression and that would mean that by its mere nature the keyframes get baked in AE using the Convert Expression to Keyframes assistant, making this a completely unrealted thing to the actual AE <--> C4D workflow. That notwithstanding, of course there'll always be situations where you cannot avoid baking keyframes even under the best of conditions. the programs simply work differently.

Mylenium

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